Added by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli almost 5 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.
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While looking at the Webview issue, I found out that they might be other places where proprietary software could hide in Replicant.
While GNU/Linux distributions use a package manager and have a build system around it, Android doesn't have something like that.
Instead it's a collection of git repositories checked out in subdirectories of the same directory.
Since we have no packages, we also have no packages definition with a license.
Since there is no unique way to gather the list of licenses used, I've started doing a quick and dirty script just to see the extent of the damages.
The script will need to be rewritten in python to be more robust.
I will also need to adapt it for Replicant 9.
This would probably take too much time for the release.
It can be done for the next one if there is one.
Though it has to be done too for Replicant 9, so we could do both at the same time after the release.
I forgot that in Settings-> About phone -> Legal information, we have some generated licenses.
It might still not be good enough though, and it would be interesting to understand how it works.